Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wiresharknetwork traffic analyzer, which may lead to denial of service. TheCommon Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the followingproblems:

CVE-2007-6450

The RPL dissector could be tricked into an infinite loop.

CVE-2007-6451

The CIP dissector could be tricked into excessive memory allocation.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed inversion 0.10.10-2sarge11. (In Sarge Wireshark used to be called Ethereal).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed inversion 0.99.4-5.etch.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed inversion 0.99.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

Upgrade instructions- --------------------

wget url will fetch the file for youdpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line forsources.list as given below: